The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself (Something wicked this way comes)

Message in a bottle.

Those immortal words by FDR in the title have suddenly become very important to me.

I hope this gets to people that need it as fast as possible. You are not crazy. Do not let fear engulf your life for it may be fertilizing and feeding something ugly. It may be a matter of life or death. Pull back from the fear signals that the world is sending you. They are not real if you don’t let them be. Embrace love, trust, courage, hope, forgiveness (mostly for yourself) in whatever manner is most powerful for you. Work on recognizing the flavor of negative thought loops and simply say STOP when you feel them coming on! Read uplifting stories of human love, forgiveness, kindness, compassion, passion, empathy and bravery and dive into the emotions that they provide then remember them and hold them over and over and realize that these are the ones that are really part of you. Dive into a light cloud of love and feel yourself floating beautifully and safely into it, as far as you want to go. Don’t stop striving for lightness of being, if you get down pull yourself up. Love is greater than fear. Just do it!

See the tree of your own crisis, that only you can solve, instead of the forest of all the conflicting signals coming into your life that are feeding your fears through guilt. These vectors can be from all places, family, friends, religious figures, television, internet. Seek out and focus on uplifting sources that you know are resonant with your true self and focus on these. Again, they can be the same types of sources as the negative ones. Single sources often give mixed messages, trying to fool you that they are good, when really they are trying to send you on a wild goose chase of guilt, energy loss and fear. Good sources often give off a little bit of mixed signal so that they are not so obvious. Learn discernment. Don’t fall for grail quest type ruses, they will only run you ragged, you know, Da Vinci Code type stuff.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE, YOU ARE NOT ALONE, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Here are some links from Tim Boucher’s Blog that I hope are helpful:

Lost In The Immense Suffering

What The Hell Happened To Me?

Sharing Some Remedies/Sharing As Remedy

Lately I have become more focused on sharing knowledge, particularly knowledge that I think may help people improve their lives. Concomitant with this increased focus, I have begun to feel the need to share such information as quickly as possible after it becomes apparent to me. This is still largely theoretical in my life, but I am taking small steps to make it more habitual, and this is one of those steps.

I want to share a couple of “home-baked” remedies that apparently have been very helpful in clearing up some chronic health problems that I have had.

Over the last few years, in researching my own health problems, one of the themes that seemed to me to be a likely common underlying factor is Inflammation. The medical community has made some steps in the direction of recognizing inflammation as a risk factor in some previously unrecognized areas such as heart disease, but overall my gut feeling is that there is much more to learn.

I suffered psoriasis on my toes for years. It probably first was triggered by a case of athletes foot that kept recurring and eventually stopped responding to anti-fungals. The next step was to use steroidal cream. This helped for awhile but it came back again and would not go away completely, roaring back to life whenever my feet were hottest and sweatiest. After a lot of research I decided to try a multi-pronged approach. In the morning I would take a dab of steroidal cream and mix it with a dab of anti-fungal cream and spread it on the affected area. At night I miixed a half cap full of hydrogen peroxide with a half cap full of apple cider vinegar and dabbed it on with cotton-swab sticks. I used the raw unfiltered vinegar from Braggs. The psoriasis cleared up after about a month and has not come back.

My dad had quite bad rheumatoid arthritis in his fingers and back for much his life, so when I started to develop some swelling and stiffness in a couple of finger joints I became concerned and went into research mode once again. I came up with the following-

1/2 to 1 ounce of cherry juice concentrate. Knudsen’s also has a tart cherry juice in non-concentrate form that I have also used (you don’t use water with this, just juice).

1 tablespoon virgin olive oil

1 teaspoon liquid lecithin

2 shakes of Turmeric powder
1 heaping tablespoon of psyllium husks

Mix in 9-10 ounces of water and drink twice a day for 4- 5 weeks. Taking this tonic seems to correlate perfectly with the disappearance of my joint pain and swelling and hemorhoids. After a month, I cut down to a maintenance dose of 1 serving, 3-4 days per week. This has held me in good stead now for 6 months.

The cherry juice and turmeric are known anti-inflammatories. I include the olive oil for general heart health and the lecithin is mostly for it’s emulsifying effects but it is also a good source of choline. The inclusion of psyllium husks is a little bit more theoretical on my part. For years I had suffered from hemorrhoids, even though I am very active physically, as well as having irregular bowl movements. I suspected a connection between my apparent bowel inflammation and my arthritis, so decided it might be good to try and clean out my plumbing. If nothing else, it has brought back regularity, if not also involved in taming my arthritis and hemorrhoids.

Another aspect of my health regimen could have also had a hand in the above results. I have taken fish oil capsules for years now for cardiovascular and brain health. The arthritis came on whileI was taking 1 1000 mg capsule each day. I upped this to 3 capsules at the time of taking the first “tonic” treatment, and I have continued at that level as the science just keeps piling up in favor of Omega 3 fatty acid supplementation.

Here’s to your health!